Sentences with phrase «about heading off»

A lot of this bill is about heading off constitutional and other legal train - wrecks.

If you're a little nervous about heading off on a two week holiday for your first «on your own» holiday, try a UK dinner dance or an overnight trip to a Christmas market to test the water.

A guy who I see four or five times a week, and who didn't think twice about heading off to Iceland with me last week.

He is not optimistic about heading off the cuts.

Riding in an open safari vehicle across a 100 - acre savannah, we get semi-close encounters with black rhinos, elephants, and giraffes that have plenty of room to roam (although we could do without the cheesy narration about heading off imaginary poachers).

«If there is any serious intention about heading off to places like Iowa and New Hampshire,» (sites of the first presidential primary and caucus), «this where it has to start.

«If there is any serious intention about heading off to places like Iowa and New Hampshire,» (sites of the first presidential primary and caucus), «this is where it has to start.

Not exact matches

Free is going to turn heads off the bat, so think about acquiring users first, then focus on dollars later.

«It's not what Mark had in his head initially, and that's why he's spoken very openly about his being caught off guard by the script and where the character ends up,» Johnson said.

The one - off media plant or mid-level talking head was about all they deployed.

Don't just pour the buyer full of all of the amazing features and all of the positive information about how great this product or apartment or whatever you're selling is, because a warning signal is going to go off in the buyers head.

The S&P 500 had been off 0.7 percent for the week heading into the day's trading, putting it about flat for the year.

About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.&rAbout five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.&rabout five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»

The company had already announced 300 people were being laid off at its head office in Waterloo this week as part of a broader plan that will reduce its global workforce by about 40 per cent.

«There have been transitions before where the department headed off in new directions, but there is traditionally a period of new people coming in and studying and learning about issues before taking bold and dramatic new policy directions,» said William Yeomans, who spent nearly 30 years at the department.

If you — like so many folks — muse about the day you can leave the stress of the rat race behind, grab control of your life, and head off on an adventure abroad... with an income that went with you... That day could be a lot sooner than you think.

I'm about to jump off the work merry - go - round and will save this post as a note to review my investments accordingly once my head stops spinning.

Minimize excess stock heading into the off - season, and stock up on best sellers when you're about to go into peak season.

A few weeks later, heading to Marseille, France, for an anxious meeting of the G7 finance ministers, Flaherty was again asked about proposals for governments to ease off on deficit reduction.

I'll check out all your links, I know we can be disciplined about saving (we are scared enough to do so), but we have been putting off the learning curve on how to do self - directed investments because we both find it so over our heads and are already squeezed for time.

Now, my understanding of your position is that you made that original prediction based on the belief that the PRC would be instituting reforms to deleverage aggressively and transfer wealth to the consumer (such that the incorrect prediction was more that you were overly optimistic about the PRC's willingness to head off these systematic risks) and that your current prognosis of ~ 3 % GDP growth has an entirely separate causative element; that is to say, your previous prediction was based on the idea the PRC would be enacting reforms to ward off systematic risks, whereas your current estimation of GDP growth is instead based on the drag produced by these very systematic risks the PRC has failed to deal with.

What's less talked about is the emotional journey, which means that a lot of us are stepping off the map, and heading into uncharted territory.

But you'd be better off sticking your head in the sand and waiting it out instead of trying to «do something about it.»

Over the six — plus years of this site, and more than 11 years learning about finance and investments, I can recall only a few times off the top of my head which I list below for reference.

Mitchell's tale is worth pausing over in order to head off from the very beginning one of the great hazards of talking about Tocqueville: so generalizing his ideas that they collapse into commonplaces no one could possibly disagree with.

Anjum Anwar, formerly of Blackburn Cathedral, told Premier's News Hour: «People seem to assume that Sharia is all about chopping hands and heads off.

What about after I rounded up some of your family members and cut off their heads, along with a few of your neighbors?

How about draw a cartoon of Muhammad and get your head cut off?

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

I knew in my head that God was in this, but all the confusion and questions in my heart about decisions that I had already made and other decisions that I would make in the not - distant future made Him feel far off and irrelevant.

When she didn't answer, and when I couldn't find her in the house, I broke down and shivered in fear that the rapture had happened and I was about to get my own head chopped off.

A bit off topic, but just some things that popped into my head that I've been thinking about lately.

I've had my fair share of stupid comments about my beard or haircut or tie, but I can let those roll off after a few minutes of shaking my head.

Initially, the compulsion to see her smile had an urgency about it, it was almost as if someone was holding a gun to my head and would blow it off if I couldn't give the right answer.

So, if faith isn't simply a matter of believing the right thing, if it's not about being right, or checking off a list of propositional truths in your head, then what is it?

It's about convincing people that «Oh, this is all off the top of my head», when actually it's several years» worth of material... I've got a couple of stories that started off with just one little line and then over two, three, five years I have built on that, and so now it's a five, ten - minute piece.

If a woman's hair is the head covering he is talking about then why cut it off if she does not cover her head?

The one good thing about this farce is that it may head off at least some of the Doomsday cult hoaxes that are going to be triggered in 2012.

We think this about the unmarried people we meet — it's an immediate judgment that goes off in my head as I try and evaluate the broken piece, performing a sort of diagnostic test: «Are you employed?

Someone is about to palm off their ideas about what that ministry is missing or headed in the wrong direction.

We say, «The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing» (1 Cor 1:18), and then head off to our Bible studies and Sunday services where we continue to talk and sing about the blood of Jesus while avoiding or ignoring the hard questions that the watching world is asking.

Reading your blog made me realize how very little I remember about that day, I basically had only remembered one lady wailing her head off.

The Salad: 1/2 pound mung bean sprouts, brown ends pinched off 1/2 pound green beans, cut into 2 - inch pieces 2 large carrots, cut into matchsticks size pieces 1 small head cauliflower, separated into small florets 3 large potatoes, boiled and sliced into rounds about 1 / 2 - inch thick 3 hard cooked eggs, peeled and quartered 1 large cucumber, skin scored and sliced very thinly

Cut off about 1/4 inch off the top of the head of garlic and place it on a large piece of aluminum foil.

She eats potatoes just about any way I make them, so when I saw a recipe that had fried potatoes and beets a light bulb went off in my head.

Preheat oven to 400 and cut about 1/3 off the top of the garlic head.

Oh and look, no fromage blanc in my house either (and wasn't about to go and buy perishables as I head off to the Languedoc tomorrow — needed to use up what I had in the fridge.

I don't know about you, but I feel like this summer had me running round like a chicken with it's head cut off.

I am actually all about recipes being quick and simple lately since I've been running around with my head cut off.

Seamus Sharkey, Head Sommelier at The Ledbury in London said, «I am already thinking about how I can bring in some producers that I tried in Australia which aren't currently represented in the UK off the back of this trip.»